About Idris

Idris is a general purpose pure functional programming language with dependent types.
Dependent types allow types to be predicated on values,
meaning that some aspects of a program’s behaviour can be specified precisely in the type.
It is compiled, with eager evaluation.
Its features are influenced by Haskell and ML, and include:

Full dependent types with dependent pattern matching

Simple foreign function interface (to C)

Compiler-supported interactive editing: the compiler helps you write code using the types

A tremendous learning opportunity to explore the depth of your own knowledge

Exercism is fantastic in learning new languages but that is not the extent of it. If you are a "more experienced" programmer you may have encountered impostor syndrome: the idea you don't really know what you think you know. Exercism lets you solve problems and put them in the space of open feedback which is a tremendous learning opportunity to explore the depth of your own knowledge. Even if you have been programming in a language for awhile it is worth checking into Exercism to see where you stand with current implementation practices.